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from the extreme difficulty of destroying contagion in clothes
and bedding, even though the walls may be cleansed. In
any such cases we endeavour, if possible, to get patients
removed to the Fever Hospital, so as to weed out the infected
person, and have one pair of lungs the less in the poor
man's room; and to get the room emptied and cleansed as
soon as possible. Great as the inconvenience may be, we
are certain that frequent changes of apartment are amongst
the best modes of giving that amount of airing to the goods
and bedding which are requisite to keep the poor man's home
healthy. No maladies hang about houses more pertinaciously
than these, and they show themselves from time to time in
the guise of sore throats, even when there is no fever with them.
The places where deaths occurred from those fevers were,
Three King's-yard Davies-street, Park-street Grosvenorsquare,
Gray's livery-stables Mount-street, Grantham-place,
(two cases of croup in one family,) Hertford-place, Hartstreet,
and Brown-street; Little Chester-street, St. George'sroad,
Cambridge-terrace, Eaton-mews south, Upper Eburystreet,
Eccleston-square, Cambridge-terrace, Glasgow-terrace,
(two cases, one of scarlet fever, the other of diphtheria, in
two families,) Upper Tachbrook-street, Stanley-street, Westmoreland-street,
and Sutherland-place.
Of the nine deaths classed under the head of typhus,
five were those of non-parishioners in St. George's Hospital.
The remainder occurred in Eaton-lane north, Stanley-street,
Hanover-place Bond-street, and Lupus-street.
The number of persons who died of maladies of degeneration
and bad development was 115; including 4 from premature
birth, 1 from malformation, 19 from atrophy and
debility, 11 from teething, 9 from tabes mesenterica, 43
from consumption, 13 from water and inflammation in the
head, and 15 from children's convulsions.